, 1887-11-06
A BETTER TONE.
The Cattle Market Shows a
Tendency to Brace Up.
Ex-Governor Warren Inter.
viewed in Chicago.
Loose Regulations Binding the
New York Cholera Suspects.
The Cattle Market.
DisDatch tn THR LEADER

Special Dispatch to THE LEADER.
CHICAGO, Nov. 5.-There are no more
fat cattle coming forward than are needed
to go around" OF such as would class
as strictly choice natives the number is
insigniicantly small. Hence, stock hay
ing the quality and style desired by e1-
porters and shippers does not have to go
begging for a buyer, and prices for such
grades have strengthened a little. This
firmness of the better sorts, as indicated
ment derived from Eastern or foreign ad-
vices, but simply the result of greatly di-
minished supplies. Gables denote that
the lowest prices OF the year still rule in
Liverpool and London, where the best
Canadian beef goes at 90 cents. Liver
pool advices also state that this is the low
est figure at which that class of stock has
ever been sold in that market.
Advices from the seaboard and inter
mediate points are scarcely less disheart-
ening. Natives not grading better than
medium have been profoundly dull from
first to last, and that the gap between
common grassers and good corn fed cattle
lo Siduuduy WluthlhS dnuOb D6 ueuleu
A feature of the trade at present is that
there is little or nothing being done at
prices between 4044 cents
Droves averaging from l, 300 pounds up
when at all desirable will bring 44(95c
without much hagging, and if not good
enough to find an outlet at this range they
generally have to go at !C94c per pound
less, or at what would appear like ridicu-
lousy low figures by comparison. Medium
fieshy to pretty good steers averaging
l,200 to 1900 pounds are selling right
along at 8 .25(94. 90, and common sorts
of killers averaging l 100 to l,250 pounds
are not wanted at over 80. 1908. Is. This
latter class of natives is as much a drug in
the market as ever, for dressed beef men
prefer good Western stock to Indifferent
natives by long odds. Indeed, it is this
plethora of good Western cattle that is
making such bad markets for ordinary
natives. Westerns that can be had
around 1926 really make Just as good
beet as natives that cost SO. SOFA 3. 60.
Common to fair cattle never sold lower
than they are now selling and it cannot be
said that they are soon likely to command
materially higher figures.
Trade in butchers stuff is Just as unsat-
lstactOry at any time for the month past.
The usual buyers are in daily attendance
but there is no life i'll the movement. At
the phenominally low prices now ruling
receivers manage, somehow, to find an
outlet for their consignments, but buyers
in the face of heavy receipts of cheap
cattle are merciless in their demand and
taken altogether it is a ~jug-handled sort
of a market. Cows, bulls and mixed
stuff sell at the usual wide range of 81. 25
(93.OO for inferior to choice and not a
great deal is done at either extreme. About
everything, good, bad and Indifferent, finds
an outlet, but the tug Of war comes in OBJ
tanning anything like a decent figure.
Stockers and feeders are steady and I'M
doubtedly trade under this head would
be better but for the scarcity of water in
many parts of the West. Western
range steers average 1850 to |, 100 lbs.
are being taken in fair numbers for
feeding purposes at 81, 40(9260. Local
spectators are doing quite a business these
days.
The better rangers sell fairly, but can
ming Texans are lower than at any time
since 1873, which is saying a good deal.
The Texas and Northern range are send
ing their herds to market with all possible
dispatch, and current receipts consist for
the greater part of this class of stock.
Dressed beef men and canners both buy
with a free hand, but at their own prices.
In point of quality the offerings are of
excellent average and there is as yet no
prospect of any let up in receipts in the
near future.